Business Insider India4y
The 747 jumbo jet ushered in the modern era of air travel, but it won't be around for the industry's recovery — Boeing will cease production in 2022
The Boeing 747 ... true "jumbo jet." Many airlines used the planes' upper deck as a bar or lounge for first class passengers, though most eventually shifted towards installing passenger seating ...
Business Insider India6y
Airlines are using these 5 planes to replace the Boeing 747 jumbo jet
The jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered ... we need 100 first and business class seats which nobody else has." "That's why we operate the 747-8 on routes where others operate ...
BBC1y
Boeing 747: Last plane delivered in regal send-off
The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel ... and is credited with starting the era of the jumbo jet, being the first aircraft to earn the nickname. On Tuesday, thousands ...
The Daily Telegraph4y
FAREWELL TO THE BOEING 747
We look back on the original Jumbo Jet’s colourful history. The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size ...
朝日新聞社2y
Boeing’s last 747 to roll out of Washington state factory
The 747 jumbo jet has taken on numerous roles--a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, and the Air Force One presidential aircraft--since it debuted in 1969.